be back later

Hi all!

I will post more lessons and activities in a month or so. I have decided I will take a break as I get ready for and recover from my surgery.

I can't wait to start planning activities again soon to share with you. I hope to feel great so the lesson should be even better.

green eggs and ham

Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Suess is one of our favorite books in this house. The kids love it. We have read it so often that they can recite the words on almost every page.




So I decided to make a fun breakfast for us......green eggs and ham!

Materials:
-the book Green Eggs and Ham
-eggs
-ham
-green food coloring

I just dropped a couple of drops of food coloring in the eggs as I scrambled them and put a few on the ham as I warmed it up.



While the kids ate, I read the story to them. It was a hit!!!

apples and bananas song

This is such a fun song for preschoolers. The kids love singing it. I made some apples and bananas labeled with each of the vowels for Z and K to hold while singing. Just repeat each verse with a different vowel sound.

journaling

Lines, scribbles, and drawings are the first steps of the writing process. You can help young children develop these writing skills through journaling. I started it this week with my son and daughter even though they are not yet writing letters. But they feel they are "writing" stories through journaling. I let them draw and/or scribble and talk to them about what they are doing. This is great for communication skills also! My husband has come home from work the past two days and looked at their journals first thing. They are thrilled to share and he loves knowing what they were drawing at the time (since I have written out their "stories" below or beside the pictures).
This is an inexpensive but wonderful thing to do with your kids. I bet it will be a favorite learning/sharing activity in your house. It is in ours!

Materials:
3 ring binder
journaling paper, very easy to make or find templates on line. I used activity village.
crayons
pencil


I let them decorate the cover to get them excited about the journal.


Here is one of Z's first entries.

This is Lightning McQueen. He has black wheels.

Sparkly S

The letter we are focusing on this week is S. So we decided to make our S's sparkly!

Materials:
Paper
Glue (squeeze not a glue stick)
Glitter




Draw an uppercase and lowercase S on the paper with your glue. Let the children shake their favorite glitter on top of the s. Shake the glitter where it spreads evenly. Let dry overnight.....tada.....a sparkly S!!!

t is for tissue

Materials needed:
construction paper
different colored tissue paper
glue marker

On your sheet of Construction paper draw an upper-case and lower case T. Trace the t's with glue, then attach crumpled tissue paper to the Ts. A fun and easy activity!

sensory caterpillars

This activity took us a while to complete but the kids loved doing it and were (surprisingly) very patient. This is a good sensory activity for preschoolers that I found in The Mailbox magazine.

Materials needed:

Several cut circles from construction paper
popsicle sticks or pipecleaners (for antennas)
glue
Different "sensory" materials ( we used cotton, aluminum foil, uncooked macaroni shells, glitter glue, foam stickers, and feathers)

Glue a different sensory material on each circle. As we were gluing we talked about how each material felt. Was it soft, smooth, sticky, etc.? You can also talk about what each object looks like....hard, shiny, sparkly, dull, etc. You may need to help younger children with the squirting of the glue.
Finish your caterpillar with a face that has antennas attached to the top. You could also add legs if you are really ambitious.....we stopped with the antennas.

Let your project dry for most of the day or overnight before displaying on a wall. This was indeed one of my kids favorite activities!

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